Port·a·ble a.
1. Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.
2. Possible to be endured; supportable. [Obs.]
How light and portable my pain seems now! --Shak.
Portable forge. See under Forge.
Portable steam engine. See under Steam engine.
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Forge n.
1. A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.
In the quick forge and working house of thought. --Shak.
2. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies. [Obs.]
In the greater bodies the forge was easy. --Bacon.
American forge, a forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously. --Raymond.
Catalan forge. Metal. See under Catalan.
Forge cinder, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary.
Forge rolls, Forge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars.
Forge wagon Mil., a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools.
Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.